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Website names ‘leftist’ UT professors

By Catherine Marfin @catherinemarfin

Four UT professors have been named on Professor Watchlist, a website that lists professors from universities across the country “who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”

The website, which first appeared early last week, is a project of Turning Point USA, a nonprofit organization which aims to educate students about the principles of free market and limited government. The

website currently lists 150 professors from 110 universities and includes pre-existing news articles detailing incidents involving each professor.

Jennifer Adair, associate professor of curriculum and instruction, history professor Joan Neuberger, religious studies professor John Traphagan and journalism professor Robert Jensen have all been listed on the website for “advancing a racial agenda” and demonstrating “liberal bias in the classroom” at UT. Adair is named on the website for proposing in a 2014

Washington Post editorial that educators teach children racial tolerance at a younger age to prevent racial prejudice. The website says Adair has pushed this opinion with required projects and assignments.

“She gives us a different perspective to consider, but doesn’t force us to adopt that perspective,” said finance junior Maria Lopez, who is currently taking a class with Adair. “She teaches about the importance of play in early childhood, which she has

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Journalism professor Robert Jensen speaks about American exceptionalism and other issues on Nov. 10.

Plan II senior joins Rhodes Scholar legacy

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For the 31st time in the school’s history, UT Austin is sending a Rhodes scholar to the University of Oxford.

Plan II senior Mikaila Smith is one of 32 U.S. students awarded the Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford by the Rhodes Trust this year. Smith said she intends to pursue two master’s of science degrees, one in refugee and forced migration studies and the other in global governance and diplomacy, though her plans may change as she coordinates with Rhodes and applies to Oxford.

Though she does not know exactly what she wants to do after Oxford, Smith said she wants to remain directly involved with the people she works with in the future. “[A] personal goal of mine is to always stay connected

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Plan II Senior Mikaela Smith is thrilled to receive the Rhodes Scholarship and plans on staying connected with those she works with now. Smith is one of the few to be awarded the opportunity to study at Oxford.

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The first local transmission of the Zika virus in Texas occurred in Brownsville, Texas health officials announced Monday.

The woman who contracted the illness is not pregnant, according to the Washington Post.

The Centers for Disease Control said the transmission was likely to be local since the patient had not traveled to or had contact with someone who traveled to a Zika-infected place.

Zika can be spread through mosquito bites or by sexual transmission from a person infected with the disease.

This is the second time a local transmission of the disease has occurred in the continental U.S. Following the first case, which was reported in Miami, the CDC issued an advisory warning to pregnant women cautioning them to not travel to the area because the disease can cause birth defects.

The CDC has not yet issued such a warning for Texas.

According to the CDC, Texas officials will be amping up mosquito testing and informing the public of the need to use mosquito repellant.

“Even though it is late in the mosquito season,

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Students pick up holiday gifts at Amazon Researchers: Martian

By Sunny Kim @sunny_newsiee

For the first time, students can order and pickup their Black Friday and Cyber Monday purchases at the Amazon pickup location at Gregory Gymnasium.

Many students previously had inconvenient experiences picking up their packages before the Amazon pickup location was installed in the summer, according to Jennifer Speer, director of communications, assessment, development and IT for the Division of Recreational Sports.

“Many of the students we talked to before this partnership explained that their packages were either left on their doors that anybody could take away, or they had to wait until their apartment office was open in very inconvenient times,” Speer said.

Psychology sophomore Michelle Tran, who lives in Chelsea Condominium at 25th, said she wouldn’t want to order packages directly to her apartment because there is no safe mailbox system.

“It’s a really nice place, it’s just the package issue,” Tran said. “It comes on time, but the package just sits outside when I’m not home.”

Speer said she believes the partnership between UT and Amazon brings a positive experience to students.

“The idea of having the opportunity to take advantage of getting pickups on campus in a safe, convenient location like Gregory Gym that is open long hours has led to a very positive student experience,” Speer said.

Nursing freshman Stephanie Chen said she ordered new headphones during Black Friday because she lost her original pair. The

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A Texas MBA student picks up his package at the Amazon pickup location in Gregory Gymnasium.

Amazon pickup location is close and convenient for her, Chen said.

“I live at Moore Hill, so it’s super close,” Chen said.

“Anything I need, I just pickup here because it’s so convenient.”

Amazon student members also receive a free

one-day pickup for orders placed by 10 p.m., according to Amazon’s website. Chen said the one-day free shipping is a great deal because it saves her time.

“If you need something within a day, you can get it the

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Unique depressions on Mars could be new places to look for signs of life, according to a new study published this month in Icarus, the International Journal of Solar System Studies. The study was led by researchers in the Jackson School of Geosciences.

Joseph Levy, a research associate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics and the study’s lead author, found two depressions on the red planet’s surface with potential to host water, nutrients and heat — a likely environment to sustain life. These depressions resemble Earth’s “ice cauldrons,” or formations created by volcanoes erupting under sheets of ice.

“First we set about to see if the materials [on the edges of the depression] were mostly ice, or ice-related,” Levy said in an email. “This involved looking for landscape features that are indicative of glacial processes on Mars.”

The team studied two regions of Mars, the Hellas Basin and the Galaxias Fossae region, focusing specifically on how these regions were formed.

“In the end, we had to rely on the morphology (landform structure) of the features to arrive at a preferred interpretation,” Levy said in an email. “The lack of ejecta and other crater-related landforms around the North Hellas depression suggests that it was volcanic, rather than

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Last year on Cyber Monday, Amazon customers ordered 54 million items worldwide, which is equivalent to 629 items per second, said Jeffrey Barker, global communications writer at Amazon, in an email.

“We expect this year to be even bigger,” Barker said.

Neuroscience freshman Eloise Taha said it was her first time using the service. Taha said she ordered Christmas gifts for her family members to the Amazon pickup place.

“It was helpful, because I ordered the gifts on Sunday, and it’s already here,” Taha said. “I just got out of class, and I’m going to my dorm after this, so it wasn’t out of the way or anything.”

Amazon@UTexas is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on the weekend from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

to the on-the-ground work,” Smith said. “I don’t want to be someone who is working for a foundation or working for a government and making decisions that affect people that I don’t interact with on a regular basis. So when I think about working in macro-policies for refugees or working on international development, it’s really important to me to continue to just interact with the populations that I’m trying to serve through regular volunteering.”

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It would be silly for her not to give her personal opinions in this class.”

Traphagan appears on the Professor Watchlist for opinions he expressed on stricter gun control laws in a 2015 opinion column in the Dallas Morning News. Traphagan declined to comment.

Similarly, Neuberger, one of the leaders of Gun-Free UT, is listed on the website for spearheading anti-campus carry efforts last fall.

Neuberger said the website falsely cites her methods as illegal.

“The entry on me in the Professor Watchlist is erroneous and says nothing about what I do in the classroom,” Neuberger said in an email. “We work hard to teach students to learn how to evaluate information found online, but some people still tend to believe what they want to believe.”

While Jensen is listed on the website for his criticism of the lax treatment of men in sexual assault cases in a 2014 essay, journalism graduate student Shelby Knowles said she does not feel that Jensen imposes his personal views on students.

“His personal opinions are rarely about the curriculum and are expressed in other comments or sidebars,” Knowles said.

“He has never pushed an agenda or view onto students.”

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Liberal Arts, said Smith keeps herself busy and focused on her classwork, community service and research.

“She’s an amazing student,” Bowles said. “I ran into her I think two weeks ago. I was on my way to a meeting, and I had my earbuds in, and she was walking by and waved. I took my earbuds out and she said, ‘I’m running to a meeting, and I just got back from New York. I’m going to Houston tomorrow for an interview and another scholarship.’ This is between all of these meetings and the Rhodes Scholarship. A few days later she emailed me saying, ‘I can’t

believe I got this, but oh my God, look!’”

Bowles said Smith also tunes out menial issues that may distract other students.

“Some of the things that I think normal undergrads worry about, for her it’s just chatter,” Bowles said.

Smith’s thesis advisor Uri Treisman, professor of mathematics and public affairs, said she is a workhorse who is extraordinarily strategic in incorporating her coursework into the things that matter most to her, including refugee education, which is the subject of her thesis, and sustainable development issues.

“I think that students, when they read about Mikaila, should

stop and reflect on what they hope to get out of the University and what they hope to do with the education they are receiving,” Treisman said.

Anisha Srivastava, a Plan II and business honors senior, has been close friends with Smith since the beginning of their freshman year.

“Getting to see her on a personal level, … I truly view her as the embodiment of the Rhodes Scholarship,” Srivastava said. “Not because of her titles or achievements, but truly because of the personal values she has and the personal values she has cultivated over a long period of time, in my opinion, are in perfect alignment with the vision of Rhodes.”

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CMHC opens second MindBody Lab in SAC

By Van Nguyen @nguyen_van

A second MindBody Lab opened Monday in the Student Activity Center just in time for finals week, when stress for college students can reach all-time highs.

The lab features audio and video instruction on topics such as meditation and breathing exercises to help students improve their emotional and physical health, according to the Counseling and Mental Health Center website.

MindBody Lab South — as Soncia Reagins-Lilly, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, refers to it — comes equipped with two recliners as opposed to the three in the original lab.

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Lab was introduced in 2003, the CMHC had equipment to help students learn how to relax and decrease stress, said Chris Brownson, associate vice president for student affairs and director of the CMHC. In order to use the equipment, students had to schedule an appointment with a clinician each time.

“I had the idea that we have a place students can come in on their own,” Brownson said.

“Once they get a tutorial on how to use the equipment, they can come in anytime they want [and] not have to meet with somebody.”

The opening of a second MindBody Lab was one of the main campaign points for Student Government President Kevin Helgren and Vice President Binna Kim along with advancing the conversation surrounding mental health.

“As college students and professionals who work along college students, we deal with mental health issues a lot more frequently than we care to admit,” Helgren said. “The idea behind normalizing what’s normal is to encourage people to have conversations about mental health, because that’s the only way people are going to be comfortable talking about the issues and embracing the differences all of us bring to the table.”

Helgren said SG is also continuing their Normalizing the Normal campaign into next semester with a weeklong event dedicated to making progress on ending mental health stigma, called “Stick It To Stigma.”

They are also looking into opening another MindBody Lab depending on how the

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Organizations work together to feed Austin’s food-insecure

By Hannah Daniel @hannahdaniel

Students dined on Chipotle, Tiff ’s Treats, P.F. Chang’s, Panera Bread and Papa John’s at the first charity buffet hosted by The Austin Meal Movement.

The $12 admission fee from Monday’s event in the Student Activity Center will be donated to local nonprofit Keep Austin Fed, which is dedicated to ending hunger in Austin.

TAMM is a student organization striving to unite food and philanthropy, said Shirley Li, administrative chair and biochemistry sophomore.

“Cooking is kind of a universal language,” Li said.

“Everyone has experienced it. … That’s something that comes across no matter what culture you’re from and no matter where you’re from. Through this organization, we can really bond through that.”

Dominique Bai, a volunteer coordinator and nutrition sophomore, said aside from bringing students together through cooking, TAMM seeks to serve the greater Austin community through volunteering and fundraising.

“It’s good learning some everyday skills like how to cook an omelet,” Bai said.

“But a big part of [TAMM] is philanthropy.”

TAMM’s beneficiary, Keep Austin Fed, collects surplus food from

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The Austin Meal Movement hosted a charity event benefiting Keep Austin Fed, a nonprofit that provides food to those in need.

commercial kitchens and distributes it to local charities serving people in need.

According to the nonprofit’s website, one in seven people are food insecure, meaning they do not know where their next meal will come from, and approximately 30 percent of food in the U.S. goes to waste.

A key aspect of Keep Austin Fed’s work is providing healthy, nutritious food to those in need, since many low-income individuals cannot afford to purchase these typically pricier items, Bai said.

Neuroscience sophomore Grace Thompson attended the buffet and said she feels Keep Austin Fed is worth supporting, especially since it caters to the needs of the local community.

“We’re thinking about the starving kids in Africa, but we don’t even realize the amount

of people who don’t know where their food is going to come from here in Austin,” Thompson said. “I think it’s good to take care of our own.”

Founded in 2015, TAMM hosts weekly general meetings, cooking socials and volunteer events.

TAMM general meetings feature guest speakers such as the founder of Don Japanese Food Truck Edward Sumner and the University’s executive chef Robert Mayberry, who demonstrate and discuss various culinary techniques with the members.

At weekly cooking socials, members follow a recipe and then eat the finished dish together.

TAMM’s recent volunteer projects include preparing breakfast for disabled artists through local nonprofit Imagine Art and working on the Feed My People Program’s community garden.

MARS

continues from page 1 impact, while the Galaxias depression has ejecta and is a strewn field of similar looking depressions that is most consistent with a swarm of meteorite impacts.”

The researchers were only able to analyze the morphology with such accuracy through the use of new and advanced camera and imaging technology.

“This study was a fun chance to use new high-resolution camera data in a clever way to build stereo elevation models,” Levy said in an email. “Getting to ‘peer inside’ these depressions for the first time was really a treat — almost as good as being there!”

Tim Goudge, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics, also contributed to the study. Goudge used the images of the depressions for his research contribution.

“My primary role for this project was producing the topographic data — digital elevation models, or DEMs — from high-resolution stereo images‎ of the Martian surface,” Goudge said in an email.

“These data allowed us to readily quantify the 3D geometry of the studied depressions, which proved critical for testing the competing hypotheses for their

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Researchers mapped the topography of depressions on Mars that could have sustained life.

formation mechanism.”

Goudge also mentioned the importance of potential liquid water in Mars’ history.

“The identification of a potential site of volcanic-ice interaction is very interesting,” Goudge said in an email. “This could have provided a source for very recent meltwater, which is thought to be scarce over the past about 3 billion years of Mars history.”

Gro Pedersen, a volcanologist at the University of Iceland, wasn’t involved with the study but told UT News how important and interesting these sites can be for continuing Mars research.

“These features do really resemble ice cauldrons known from Earth, and just from that perspective they

should be of great interest,” Pedersen said in the article.

“Both because their existence may provide information on the properties of subsurface material — the potential existence of ice — and because of the potential for revealing ice-volcano interactions.”

Levy said he is optimistic about the future use of the research in missions to Mars.

“This study helps build the case that there are many different kinds of habitable environments on Mars where, in the past, life could have found a refuge from the cold, dry martian surface environment,” Levy said in an email.

“Hopefully it will be used to help target future missions designed to hunt for traces of past Martian life.”

Student Government President and Vice President Kevin Helgren and Binna Kim and mental health activists unveil the UTS’s second MindBody Lab, located on the second floor of the SAC. Alissa Lazo-Kim Daily Texan Staff

SAC location performs with students, Helgren said.

Reagins-Lilly said the opening of the lab represents collaboration between students and faculty.

“I want the MindBody Lab to represent not only

your health as you experience this campus and cope with the stressors of being in college and dealing with life, we also want it to be symbolic of the fact that you’re not alone,” Reagins-Lilly said.

“You have individuals that

are dedicated to you.”

The second lab is open all week as opposed to the original lab, which is only open Monday through Friday.

Hours vary by day. More information on the labs can be found on the CMHC website.

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continues from page 1 mosquitoes can spread Zika in some areas of the country,” CDC director Tom Frieden said in a statement. “Texas is doing the right thing by increasing local surveillance and trapping and testing mosquitoes in the Brownsville area.”

While Austin and Travis County have not experienced a local transmission of the disease, a transmission could occur without being as widespread as it has been in other locations, Shannon W. Jones III, the director of the Travis County Health and Human Services department, said in September.

“We anticipate that local transmission of Zika virus may also occur in Austin/Travis County,” Jones said in a memo to Austin Mayor Steve Adler. “We do not think that it will be as

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widespread as has been seen in Brazil and Central and South America. Because of very different living conditions, including screened-in homes, air

conditioning, and less crowded housing, we anticipate that if we see local transmission, it may be in small, clustered areas.”

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COLUMN

Tuition vouchers prove ineffective reform

By G. Elliott Morris

Daily Texan Senior Columnist @GElliottMorris

In the United States, Texas has consistently ranked among the lowest in education quality and finance, and it’s not looking to change any time soon. Instead of fixing the broken funding mechanisms of Texas public schools, Capitol Hill lawmakers seek to pass new “school choice” legislation that provides tuition vouchers for students to attend charter and private schools on the government’s dime. This idea for charter and private school vouchers has also reached the national stage recently as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Department of Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is a funding voucher crusader.

But our state officials shouldn’t be pedaling a non-fix for our public school system. Should we be prioritizing freedom of school choice over the failing quality of public education? I think not.

Let’s not mince words — this is an argument against states subsidizing charter and private school education. A state, might I add, that has a crippled public education funding mechanism.

Just last year, the Texas Supreme Court — known for its conservative justices — called the funding system “Byzantine” and “undeniably imperfect” and said that it satisfies only the minimum constitutional requirements. This is largely a criticism of the State’s “Robin Hood” funding apparatus

which redistributes funds from the richer school districts to those in need. It remains true that the Texas Government is failing to provide adequate funding for its public school system.

Yet, instead of finding a fix to the hallmark of government — Thomas Jefferson once said that “light and liberty” go hand-in-hand — the Legislature would like to divert funds to charter and private schools. Although one could argue that this is a classic case of government failing to prioritize a problem, I disagree. The Texas Government is fully focused on the failed funding mechanism of its public school system, but its solution is simply foolhardy.

According to data from the 2015 American Community Survey (an arm of the U.S. Census), states with charter school laws are more likely to graduate students from high school and send them to college, albeit only by about 5 percent.

Comparing no-charter states with Texas, however, the deficit grows to about 12 percent.

Should Texans really be forced to subsidize a government-led charter school initiative that could very well depress current levels of high school and college graduation? Or are these cross-sectional comparisons falling victim to demographic and financial differences? To be sure, let’s peer into the success of a demographically, financially similar state’s voucher program — that of Louisiana.

A study released earlier this year by the

Infographic by G. Elliott Morris| Daily Texan Staff

Education Research Alliance found that a similar “school choice” voucher program decreased student’s statewide test scores by 9 percent in English language arts and a whopping 27 percent in mathematics. The study also found that Louisiana’s program had absolutely zero non-educational benefits, like political tolerance or “non-academic skills.”

It’s safe to say that charter schools and voucher programs do not have a proven track record in

increasing the quality of public education. In fact, the evidence suggests otherwise. If Texans want the government to follow up on their responsibility to provide light and ensure liberty, they should demand a fix for the public school system — lest the conservative wing of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s Texas GOP can hijack our children’s future in the name of “freedom of choice.”

Morris is a computer science, government and history junior from Port Aransas.

COLUMN

Trump’s rise provides answers to Fermi paradox

By Sam Groves

Daily Texan Columnist @SamGroves

The Milky Way is billions of years old and composed of billions of stars. If life is a fairly typical and unremarkable process, and not an aberration in the history of the universe, then by now there should have been plenty of opportunities for life to originate in our galaxy, and plenty of time for life to become civilized and develop means of interstellar travel and communication.

And yet we find ourselves alone. Unless you believe conspiracy theorists, we’ve yet to be visited or contacted by aliens. This is the Fermi paradox, an argument against the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence first advanced by the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.

One response to the Fermi paradox is to say that the reason interstellar civilizations don’t seem to exist is that any given civilization will always destroy itself before it can become so advanced. The causes of demise are varied, but they can include war, institutional decay, runaway technology and environmental disaster.

Our credence in this response should be bolstered by the election of Donald Trump.

No, the Trump presidency is not going to lead to the annihilation of life on Earth. But Trump certainly represents underlying phenomena that could, in the very long run, threaten civilization as we know it. Technology is developing faster than our institutions can respond. Better robotics have led to automation, while better communication has led to globalization and the spread of misinformation. As people feel left behind, they

POINT

University-sanctioned sports carry expansive list of benefits

By Diane Sun

Daily Texan Columnist @Sun_Diane

Higher education has been intertwined with athletics for the majority of its history. Then, as now, college athletics commands it own cultural following, and riding on the coattails of its multimillion dollar budgets, holds formidable say in how universities are run.

Critics assert that burgeoning athletics departments are superseding the primary academic mission of universities. Administrators regard their schools’ athletics programs as a means of driving alumni donations, capturing prospective students and increasing prestige.

Yet, to broadly condemn and remove all university-sanctioned athletics would be a loss to the university experience.

Of the 24 sports sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the problem lies in the unchecked commercialization of two specific sports — Division I men’s football and basketball. The NCAA’s current eight-year March Madness television contract is worth $8.8 billion.

Their twelve-year football contract with ESPN will generate $470 million annually. Add apparel deals, branding rights and commercial sponsorships, and the profitability of these sports invites perverse incentives.

Unsurprisingly, the highly regressive reward structure for revenue sports proves problematic in a university setting. The pursuit of prestige, maligned ambition, and the inflated exposure undermine the academic mission and produced unaddressed sexual assaults, facetious academic programs, subsidies for athletics budget deficits, and the controversial amateurization of college athletes.

But to eliminate all athletics from higher education would be a detriment to what universities purport. Participation in sports instills students with dedication and discipline, promotes physical fitness and camaraderie, and in general, enables individuals to pursue

mastery in something they find meaningful.

College athletes clearly benefit from their tenure on a sports team. The graduation rate for Division I student athletes is two percent higher than the national average. For Division III student athletes, the graduation rate is seven percent higher. Each year, for the past five years, at least two NCAA student athletes have been named Rhodes Scholars.

More broadly, athletics serve as a unifying force for many on college campuses. The excitement that follows a win is easy to adopt.

To rid colleges of sports is to also rid ourselves of the pride and admiration of winning ten gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics or the endearment of watching our cheery mascot show off his moves. With reforms in mind, universities should strive to better serve their athletes instead.

Sun is a Business Honors and government junior from Sugar Land.

increasingly view the old institutions as outdated, while simultaneously yearning for the old way of life. They seek an authoritarian figure to “Drain the Swamp” and “Make America Great Again.”

But the same relentless drive of technological progress that leads to the rise of authoritarians also puts immense power in their hands. Just as we’ve become better at getting robots to do our work for us, shipping jobs overseas and sharing fake news articles on Facebook, we’ve also become better at polluting the atmosphere and killing each other with weapons of mass destruction.

What does all of this have to do with aliens?

Well, these are exactly the kinds of pressures we’d expect any civilization as advanced as ours to face. If the typical response is to seek authoritarian leadership and attempt to go backwards in history, then it doesn’t bode well for highly

COUNTERPOINT

Sports don’t belong on college campuses, should be privatized

By Olivia Griffin

Daily Texan Columnist @oglikesdogs

Sports play a critical role in American society. That being said, commercialized NCAA sports do not belong at a university and should instead become privatized. As an institution, our foremost concern should be our students, not the financial interests that come with a multi-million dollar athletic enterprise.

Charlie Strong didn’t win as many games as other coaches, but he prioritized students. He instilled values in his players and taught them to be respectable men, not just money-making football players. Strong’s firing because he didn’t “win” a lot demonstrates the priorities of the UT athletic department — and why NCAA sports should not be a part of our University.

The NCAA makes $871.6 million in

Stephanie Tacy| Daily Texan Staff

Fans cheer on the Longhorns in Austin at the Oct. 29 football game against Baylor. Recent happenings at Baylor further represented the corruption often present in college football programs.

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advanced civilizations on any planet, anywhere.

As this year’s presidential race twisted and baffled its way past the limits of satire, a kind of knee-jerk nihilism came into vogue among liberals. Back in May, the Boston Globe dubbed this the “nothing matters” election. Since Election Day, this dumbfounded despondency has only gotten worse.

But this is the worst possible reaction to the political developments of this year. The presidential election did not show that the work of progress is meaningless. What it showed was that the work of progress is incredibly hard, and it will only get harder. That work is only made more important by the very real possibility that we’ve come farther than anyone else before us — hence the eerie silence of the cosmos.

Groves is a government sophomore from Dallas.

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annual revenue. While the NCAA states that “student-athletes should be protected from exploitation by professional and commercial enterprises,” an entity where the head coach receives a bonus of $250,000 for winning a technically amateur championship is undoubtedly a commercial enterprise.

For some of the top athletes, even the most generous scholarship packages are a mere fraction of what they would be paid as professionals.

In 2014, Northwestern University football players went on strike, noting that they regularly worked over 50 hours per week for the team — on top of their regular academic obligations. The NCAA quickly shut these players down. NCAA President Mark Emmert said that allowing students to unionize was “grossly inappropriate.” Because of this, students are unable to negotiate for benefits such as health insurance policies without a $90,000 deductible for injuries sustained as a direct result of sports participation and worker’s compensation.

As a result, some of the best students in the nation cannot even pay for basic costs of living.

Shabazz Napier, a star of UConn’s Final Four basketball team in 2014, admitted that he often went to bed “starving” because he couldn’t afford food. Meanwhile, his participation in the Final Four tournament brought the NCAA over $750 million. His university even collected $200,000 from Nike for sales of Napier’s jersey.

Sports teams should be fully privatized and professional entities separate from universities. This way, we can hold sports teams to the moral and legal standard that we would hold any other multi-million dollar corporation to, and promote fair working conditions for student-athletes.

But, the chances of universities abandoning the NCAA is about the same as UT going to the Cotton Bowl this year. It won’t happen — but that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t happen.

Griffin is a government and Plan II junior from Dallas.

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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘ALLIED’

Period drama tells compelling love story

By Penn Harrison @PennHarrison

Polar opposites compose many great stories, and love and war are two of the most timeless. “Allied” is hardly the first film to depict a wartime romance that blossoms in Casablanca, but despite its familiarity, Robert Zemeckis’s World War II romantic thriller is an enthralling snapshot of history. Its rich visuals and strong performances overcome its problematic finale, tonal shifts and heavy sentiment.

Canadian agent Max (Brad Pitt) parachutes into Casablanca at the height of Nazi supremacy in 1942.

His mission? Assassinate a German ambassador.

His accomplice? Beautiful former French resistance agent Marianne (Marion Cotillard). They role-play husband and wife, but their public “marriage” quickly evolves into a real romance in private. After the assassination, Max brings Marianne to London, where they marry, have a daughter and achieve domestic paradise despite nightly bombings. Max is called back to duty when superiors intercept coded messages transmitted to Berlin by a “fraulein,” or woman, from his neighborhood.

He has 72 hours to prove his wife isn’t a German spy, and if he fails, he must execute her with his own hands.

Pitt, like his character, balances a stern façade with emotional transparency.

Max is deadly and calculating in action, but paranoid and delicate when he begins to doubt Marianne’s identity.

Cotillard evokes both the “femme fatale” who haunted DiCaprio’s dreams in “Inception,” and the threatened innocence of Ingrid Bergman in “Casablanca.” She

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Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star as spies in love in Robert Zemeckis’ stylish, multifaceted World War II drama “Allied.”

equals Max in tactical skill, and hints at a tormented past — she narrowly escaped execution by Nazis in Vichy France. Her character mirrors the movie: multifaceted and intriguing.

Zemeckis, who crafted “Back to the Future,” “Forrest Gump” and “Cast Away,” showcases a breadth of creativity behind the camera. When Max and Marianne make love in a car in the Sahara, a sandstorm envelops them in a roaring blur of orange and black.

Zemeckis’ camera circles the two lovers, turning faster and moving closer before finally gliding out the window into a dark, sandy abyss. When a Blitz siren interrupts their London wedding, Zemeckis cuts to nurses racing Marianne out of a burning hospital before she gives birth while German bombs burst over the city. Scenes like these evoke a fairytale atmosphere, immersing us in the action of wartime London.

Zemeckis effectively portrays the timeless contrast of love and war, but

his pacing and tone grow problematic. Max learns Marianne might be a spy at the film’s midpoint, and he springs into action. Zemeckis maintains long emotional pauses and gradual suspense, but his craft no longer matches his narrative. He directs action, however, with style and agility and is unlikely to lose many viewers juxtaposing this style against slow romantic drama.

After several violent action sequences, “Allied” climaxes, disappointingly, with a heated argument that is mostly off camera.

Its tragic conclusion will seem realistic to students of history, but defies its fairytale tone. Audiences who enjoyed the romantic sentiment will long to see the characters’ love overcome war, but will be let down.

Despite its flaws, “Allied” is a graceful and gripping historical thriller. It pays homage not just to “Casablanca,” but a bygone style of filmmaking.

Zemeckis’ characteristic

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sentiment occasionally overwhelms, but “Allied”’s bold visuals, variegated pacing and strong performances elevate its narrative.

Perhaps for the better, “Allied” never solves its central conflict. Millions during the war longed for individual love to overcome global strife. Some emerged with moving stories of relationships that overcame their circumstances, but others saw their starry aspirations crash back to Earth like Blitz planes over London. Max and Marianne embodied a contradiction of romance and violence, dedication and deception, Allies and Axis, hope and fatalism. Zemeckis puts these opposing poles onscreen with memorable style, but avoids their broader implications.

He’s content to simply tell one story.

CHICANA

continues from page 8 from the Chicana community, provided UT with the resources necessary to create a Chicana Studies curriculum.

“Chicana Studies had already begun to emerge by the mid-1970s, but it didn’t really become established until it got incorporated into college courses,” Sendejo said.

Beyond the realm of academia, Cotera said many feminists have personal stakes in libraries. Here, feminists discovered stories about Our Lady Guadalupe addressing San Juan Diego with assertive statements and used this evidence to associate her with feminism. For the predominately Catholic Chicana population, this provided a symbol of empowerment grounded within the epistemological framework of spirituality.

“We made Our Lady of Guadalupe into a feminist icon by taking away her passivity and turning her into a champion for women,”

SWEATT

continues from page 8 from his classmates. He said campus police officers would frequently stop him to ask for his ID while white students walked uninhibited around campus.

“There were a number of times where I felt excluded from the conversation,” Sweatt II said. “There was always that feeling that all those people smiling in your face did not really want to be bothered with you or any other minority student on campus. Everything that black students gained on UT campus had to be petitioned for.”

Sweatt II sent his great uncle Heman a letter to share the news of his acceptance, and his great uncle was delighted. While he was never able to finish law school, he hoped Sweatt II would continue his

Cotera said. “In order to do this, we had to do research.”

Cotera said the struggle to free symbols from their oppressive history and turn them into feminist icons is critical to promoting feminism.

Emilio Zamora, a history and Mexican American studies professor said this Chicana feminist tactic is grounded in the Mexican-American penchant for history.

“Mexicans are very historically minded. It’s a part of their daily lives,” Zamora said. “So [Cotera] came to the field from a historical approach. It’s no accident that she became a librarian. She was very interested in the production and dissemination of knowledge.”

Cotera said the social change that Chicana feminists rely on is only made possible through sufficient resources.

“To be liberated, you need information,” Cotera said.

“We need to constantly work to preserve it because without it, we don’t have history and we don’t have social change.”

education.

“He always tried to encourage me and my cousin to stick with [education] and not let anything distract or deter [us],” Sweatt II said.

Sweatt developed major health problems due in part to the stress of the lawsuit and died in 1982.

While his uncle is survived by the lasting impact of his Supreme Court case, Sweatt II said there is still progress to be made. “[We should] stop prejudging and collectively [labeling] a group of people,” Sweatt II said. “If you open up the door and let everyone compete freely, I think people begin to realize and see, with my uncle’s case and moving forward, that the color of the skin doesn’t determine how much knowledge you can gain or how educated you are.”

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FOOTBALL

Herman sets expectations high for Longhorns

By Tyler Horka @TexasTy95

Charlie Strong took over as the Longhorns’ head coach in 2014 with one goal in mind: He wanted to put the ‘T’ back in Texas.

Two years and three seasons later, he ultimately failed.

Although Strong kicked out several players who didn’t adhere to his five core values for the program, he failed to bring the toughness required to manage a winning team in a power five conference.

Strong’s successor, former Houston head coach Tom Herman, spoke to the Austin media for the first time Sunday evening as the man in charge of Texas football. He preached accountability on behalf of his players, a fatal flaw that eventually ousted Strong.

“The first few months is going to be a lot of proving,” Herman said. “A lot of me proving myself to the players and the plan and a lot of the players

proving themselves to not only me and our coaches, but to their teammates as well.”

Strong’s team showed its love and praise for its coach until the bitter end but never proved it on the field. But Herman has the reins now, and the Longhorns appear poised to move forward — more so than with Strong at the helm just days ago.

Herman is a proven winner. He holds a 22–4 record in two years as head coach at Houston. Strong recorded six or more losses in five of his seven career seasons as an FBS head coach. The 41-year-old still can’t match Strong in years of experience, but he already knows not only how hard it is to win, but exactly how to do it, too.

“They don’t give and hand out championship trophies,” Herman said. “Never once have I ever seen a football coach ever hoist a championship trophy … and say, ‘You know, we out-finessed them.’ That’s never

come out of any coach’s mouth ever.”

Sure, Herman kisses each of his players on the cheek before they take the field every Saturday. But he also runs a rigid, tough program. If he didn’t, athletic director Mike Perrin wouldn’t have been so adamant to replace Strong mere hours after Texas’ loss to TCU Friday night.

“Tom Herman was our choice after meeting with him that night,” Perrin said. “And [we’re] very, very impressed with everything he did to get to this point in his career. So he’s the clear choice.”

University President Gregory Fenves was fully on board, too. When he and Perrin met with Herman at an undisclosed location late Friday night, Fenves liked what he heard.

“We talked for several hours to determine if he was the right coach for the University and if we were the right university for him,” Fenves said. “The answer was yes to

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Newly hired head coach Tom Herman talked to the Austin media for the first time in his new role Sunday. He preached accountability for his team and outlined his plan for a successful future.

both questions.”

Success doesn’t happen overnight. It doesn’t always happen with time, either.

Charlie Strong learned that the hard way.

But just days into his tenure in Austin, Herman already has

big plans for Texas in mind. He said his team will be the most mentally and physically tough squad to hit the gridiron each and every Saturday.

And most importantly, he’s ready to bring results.

“It’s not going to be Camp

Texas around here, I can tell you that,” Herman said. “This is going to be a very difficult program, especially at first.

And you’re going to have to earn the respect and trust and love of our coaching staff and of myself.”

BASKETBALL

Texas looks to snap two-game skid against UT-Arlington

By Claire Cruz @claireecruz5

With the end of the semester drawing near, students on the 40 Acres are beginning to buckle down in preparation for finals.

For student-athletes, finals present an additional challenge to their season schedules. Texas’ men’s basketball team will play six games over the last three weeks of the semester, starting with a home matchup against UT-Arlington on Tuesday.

And head coach Shaka Smart said he understands the stress ahead for his players.

“At a place like Texas, it’s challenging down the stretch and we really want our guys to finish strong,” Smart said.

“What we try to do as a staff is just try to stay on top of where they are, what they have coming up because that gives us a little bit better understanding of. If a guy’s dragging a little bit in practice or he seems a little tired, maybe it’s because he was up late last night working on

that long paper.”

Regardless of academic demands, Smart still expects his team to be prepared for battle on the court. The Mavericks challenged Texas when the two programs faced off in Austin last season, forcing overtime before the Longhorns could secure an 80-73 victory.

UT-Arlington enters the contest riding a three-game win streak. The Mavericks return several key players who lifted the team to a 24-11 record last season, including

juniors forward Kevin Hervey and guard Erick Neal.

“I believe the five guys we started [in last season’s matchup] are all gone and the five guys that they started are the same starting lineup now,” Smart said. “[Hervey’s] a really good player. They’ve got some other very, very dangerous pieces, too, led by their point guard Neal. They’ve got quite a few of their reserves back that played against us, so it’s a veteran team.”

The Longhorns enter

Tuesday’s game looking to bounce back from consecutive losses. Smart said his young players were a little overwhelmed under the lights of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, and the jitters carried over to their play.

But Texas is returning to the comfort of its home court for two games before heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan, next week for a marquee matchup against Michigan. And Smart is ready to see how his

team responds.

“Any game that you lose is a setback,” Smart said.

“But basketball season is a long one, and if you can learn from the setback then it actually can be something positive in the long run.

That’s really what these next two or three weeks are going to be about for us, is okay guys, you’ve realized it’s a little harder than you thought… Now what is our response to hard.”

Texas and UT-Arlington tip off on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

FOOTBALL Oklahoma junior quarterback Baker Mayfield has played lightsout as of late.

He’ll look to lead the Sooners to a consecutive conference championship against Oklahoma State on Saturday.

Joshua Guerra Daily Texan Staff

Big 12 title on the line Saturday

when Cowboys battle Sooners

By Steve Helwick @s_helwick

Bedlam rivalry game to decide Big 12 title Two bitter rivals will meet in Norman, Oklahoma, this weekend to determine the conference champion.

No. 8 Oklahoma (9-2) and No. 10 Oklahoma State (9-2) meet with rankings attached to their names for the sixth time in eight years. The top10 matchup features highly touted quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield and Mason Rudolph, two of the top 12 passers in the nation.

Mayfield led the Sooners to a 58-23 victory to win the Big 12 last season, but the Cowboys stole the contest in Norman in 2014. The two teams enter the matchup with a combined 15-game winning streak, but one must snap in the conference’s unofficial championship game.

Oklahoma and Oklahoma State kick off at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Baylor continues losing skid at AT&T Stadium Since starting 6–0, the Bears’ season quickly turned for the worst.

Without starting quarterback Seth Russell, Baylor dropped its fifth straight game in Arlington to Texas Tech, 54-35. The loss marked the Bear’s fourth straight blowout loss, a testament to the decline of their defense throughout the season.

The defense yielded 586 passing yards and six touchdowns to Texas Tech’s strong-armed quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes, a junior, leads the NCAA in passing yards and may be foregoing a senior season to test the waters in the NFL. Texas Tech improved to 5-7 with the win, but the Red Raiders’ season appears to be finished barring an unexpected bowl invitation.

Kansas proves unable to build winning streak Kansas won its first FBS game since 2014 in late November with a 24-21 victory over Texas. But on Rivalry Week, the Jayhawks had their eyes on winning their first road game since 2009.

However, Kansas State had different plans. With a versatile rushing attack, the Wildcats cruised by their in-state rival, 34-19. Kansas

State head coach Bill Snyder now owns 200 wins in his esteemed coaching career.

The Wildcats are quietly one of the top teams in the Big 12 with a 7-4 record, winning four of their last five. They close the regular season in Fort Worth against TCU on Saturday.

West Virginia throttles Iowa State in second half The Mountaineers held a 21-16 lead over Iowa State after two quarters, but head coach Dana Holgorsen’s offense ignited for the final stretch in Ames, Iowa. West Virginia annihilated the Cyclones 49-19, improving to 9-2 in the process.

Freshman running back Martell Pettaway dominated in his first career appearance, recording 181 rushing yards, 25 receiving yards and a touchdown. Despite a successful season in the wins column, the Mountaineers are eliminated from Big 12 title contention — Oklahoma and Oklahoma State each hold tiebreakers over the team.

They can finish their season with a win over Baylor on Saturday.

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EDITOR’S NOTE This compilation of stories highlights the experiences of students struggling to achieve equal representation on campus.

REPRESENT. First black students recall campus climate

By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8

When Maudie Ates Fogle arrived on UT’s campus, some of her professors doubted her intelligence, and her classmates wouldn’t acknowledge her presence.

Unless the class was full, they sometimes wouldn’t sit next to her.

Ates Fogle left Houston to study nursing at UT in 1961.

At that time, she was one of about 200 black students on campus. Their dorms were segregated, most local businesses were off limits and there wasn’t a single black student on any of the sports teams — it wasn’t allowed.

“I felt like an outsider because of the way they treated us,” Ates Fogle said.

For Ates Fogle and her husband, alumnus Lonnie Fogle, the discrimination they faced at school was nothing new.

“That was the attitude across Texas,” Fogle said.

“We left places that had the same restrictions and limitations, so it wasn’t as though we had been robbed of some great freedom.”

Shortly before they arrived, students began challenging the status quo. When Fogle saw one of his friends peacefully protesting the Varsity Theater’s whites-only policy, he joined in.

The protests began to gain traction and eventually received national attention when former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised the students for their efforts in her weekly column “My Day.” With her support, the students continued protesting until the shops on the Drag integrated during the fall semester.

“Before [they integrated], your life itself depended on being race-conscious and

asking ‘Can I do this because of who I am?’” Fogle said.

“When it got to the point that you could just walk in somewhere and sit down, it was a lot off your shoulders.”

But on campus, things still hadn’t changed.

Black students were often relegated to small, twostory wooden houses while white students could choose from a selection of large, brick dormitories. To protest the policy, Ates Fogle and then-sophomore Sherryl Griffen Bozeman organized a sit-in at Kinsolving Dormitory in October 1961. Fogle attended, and black and white students peacefully gathered singing songs and playing the piano. The next day, every one of the 200 black students received a letter hand-delivered to their doors, requesting their appearance at the Dean’s office.

Following the University’s response, Ates Fogle, Griffen Bozeman and Leroy Sanders teamed up to file a lawsuit against the University. In 1964, the University decided to integrate the dorms and invalidate the lawsuit.

“It was a step toward us having equal rights,” Ates Fogle said. “It shouldn’t have been difficult to get an education just because of the color of your skin. We went through so much trying to get the University to get better and better — to do right by black students and students of color.”

During their time at the University, the Fogles often turned to the community of fellow black students for support.

“We spoke to one another about our problems and adversity so we felt support,” Fogle said. “We had information bases to tell each other which professors you

Chicana feminist fights for voice in academia In a library filled with the sounds of shuffling books and beeping scanners, librarian and Chicana activist Martha Cotera found the words she needed to fuel her movement.

Cotera, a major figure in the Chicana feminism movement, is best known for her activity in La Raza Unida and for her hundreds of published works.

La Raza Unida was a Texas-based political party that promoted the election of Mexican-American officials and was a significant part of the Chicano civil rights movement in the ’70s.

During her time with the party, Cotera began to recognize the marginalization of Chicanas within the Mexican-American community and published many works detailing the

need to address sexism within that context.

Cotera said her work in Chicana feminism would not have been possible without the services provided by educational institutions. Her identity as a librarian led her to address issues of representation in academic contexts, such as the exclusion of certain community documents from colleges and libraries.

“The work of activist librarians is often disregarded because people think that they’re only filing papers,” Cotera said. “But they provide a valuable service by preserving voices from local communities.”

Cotera’s most popular book, “Diosa y Hembra,” provides a history of Chicanas in the U.S. and is a key piece of literature in the Chicana Feminist discourse, but it isn’t available on the shelves of Austin’s public libraries and can

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attended UT. “We wanted to act as resources to and for the students who were there to ensure that their experience at UT was better than ours,” Fogle said.

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wanted to avoid, there were a lot of do’s and don’ts to safeguard ourselves.”

After graduating in 1966, Fogle immediately entered the workforce as a chemical engineer. Often, he said coworkers would ask if he had gone to UT on a football or basketball scholarship, or doubt the fact that he had a degree in chemistry.

His experience in the workplace combined with the news that students on campus were wearing blackface prompted him to do something.

In 2009, Fogle founded the Precursors, an organization of the first black students to have

only be found in the Austin History Center archives.

“Libraries are supposed to reflect the communities they serve, but in reality, they represent the societal class hierarchies,” Cotera said. “The dominant class gets to decide what gets put into academia.”

Cotera’s 35-year career as a librarian and as an archivist at the Benson Latin American Collection gave her the experience she needed to help run the Chicana Research and Learning Center, which she co-founded in 1974.

UT alumna Brenda Sendejo, an anthropology professor at Southwestern University, said the creation of the center started a dialogue between the Chicana community and Austin’s universities. The center, which received materials such as newspapers

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Sweatt v. Painter case establishes UT legacy

By Lisette Oler @LisetteOler

Heman Marion Sweatt sees $27,000 in cash lying on the table before him. Taking the money means dropping his lawsuit against UT and never attending the University’s law school. It was a bribe he wasn’t willing to take.

Seventy years ago, Sweatt filed a lawsuit against then-University president Theophilus Painter. Sweatt, a black man, applied to the UT School of Law in 1946 and was denied admittance because of his race.

His suit challenged the “separate but equal” doctrine that permitted segregation of blacks and whites under Plessy v. Ferguson. Though it was initially denied by the Texas District Court, the case eventually made

its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On June 5, 1950 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Sweatt, stating that the blacksonly law school the University tried to create in the alloted six-month period was inherently unequal. The court required the University to accept Sweatt.

Even though he had been admitted, his time at UT would prove to be just as difficult as the admittance process.

“He talked about how he’d go to class and he’d have screens set up around his desk sectioning him off or he’d be moved out into the hallway,” said his great nephew, Heman Marion Sweat II. “He had made quite a few friends who were really concerned for his safety, and they would walk him after class to his car.”

Sweatt II was born on June 30, 1950. While he didn’t spend much time with his great uncle growing up, he knew his name was full of history.

As he learned more about his great uncle, it drove him to live up to the expectations that came with their shared name. “[His legacy] drove me to do try harder,” Sweatt II said. “When I was real young, it was likely a burden, but as I got older and I started learning about his impact on education in Texas, it gave me something to shoot for.”

In 1968, 18 years after his great uncle was admitted, Sweatt II attended UT. While the campus atmosphere was more accepting of black students than it was in the ’50s, Sweatt II still felt disdain

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